Effect of insurance status on the surgical treatment of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1221-1226

  Groth, Shawn S ^a   Al Refaie, Waddah B ^b   Zhong, Wei ^c   Vickers, Selwyn M ^d   Maddaus, Michael A ^d   D'Cunha, Jonathan ^e   Habermann, Elizabeth B ^f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875295742     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.10.079     Document Type: Article

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